Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tareq Baconi and Nesrine Malik discuss the struggle for justice in Palestine, its global ramifications, and strategies for decolonization in the 21st century.
The Palestine Festival of Literature hosted this landmark conversation at London's Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival 2026. Tareq Baconi is one of the foremost Palestinian intellectuals of his generation and we were honoured to be launching his new book What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future.
Featured Speaker
Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He previously served as Al-Shabaka’s US policy fellow and later as president of the board of directors. His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Baffler, among others. He also contributes essays to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He is the author of What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future (2026), Hamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance (2018), which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award, and Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir (2025).
